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Over the last couple of weeks, I have been giving you tips on where to go to promote your self-published book. Did you know there is an easy way to get the addresses and phone numbers of every Borders bookstore in the United States?
Just go to: www.bordersstores.com/locator/locator.jsp
Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
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As I mentioned last week, the hardest part about promoting your self-published book is knowing where to go. Finding the location of Books-a-Million bookstores is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
1: Go to: www.booksamillion.com
2: Scroll all the way to the very bottom and find the “Store Locator” link
3: Enter in the zip code you want to search.
Voila!
Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays
by Carolyn Gage
“As Carolyn Gage is one of the best lesbian playwrights in America, the book is an intellectual banquet… the reader will get the education of a lifetime.”– Lambda Book Report, Los Angeles
The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan of Arc has been rousing women to resistance—inspiring them to walk out of patriarchal institutions and fight for a feminist vision.
This new collection includes six other powerful Gage plays:
The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
The greatest actress of the 19th century, a lesbian butch, makes a riotous last stand.
Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
A lesbian butch stakes her claim to a place in men’s history the only way she can.
Cookin with Typhoid Mary
History’s most notorious typhoid carrier tells her side of the story.
The Parmachene Belle
The Maine hunting guide who loved Annie Oakley offers a lesson on fly fishing.
Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism in a fight-to-the-death.
Artemisia and Hildegard
Two of the most powerful women artists in history square off on a volatile panel about strategies for survival.
For more information or to order this book, visit the author’s webpage.
What this means for you…
As a self-publishing Children’s book author, you may have seen news of a new lead testing requirement established in the Consumer Product Safety Information Act (CPSIA) on ALL children’s products, including Children’s books. The deadline for self-publishing authors and printers are looking at for acceptable lead levels is an approaching February 10 of this year.
Testing and certification takes place at the book printer level and full-service self-publishers of children’s books are working hard to make sure they meet requirements. If you are in the process of publishing or currently looking for a self-publishing option don’t worry. There are those out there already covering their bases. Here is a statement from one printer/publisher posted earlier this week:
publisher and other book printing organizations are continuing their efforts to obtain a complete exemption by the CPSC by providing test results showing that the lead content level is either nonexistent or well below the standard set by the Act.
If it is determined that books are indeed covered by the Act, publisher will comply with the Act’s requirements by February 10, 2009, as the new limits on lead content begin to go into effect for products directed at children age 12 and under.
Make sure to check with your publisher when researching your options and establishing direction for your children’s book.
Have fun and keep writing.
– Karl Schroeder
On Monday I mentioned how to find a Barnes and Noble near you to promote your self-published book. Whether you’ve already self-published or you are considering self-publishing, it is important to keep in mind that traditional book retailers often look for four things when deciding whether or not to stock a book on their shelves:
1) Availability with a distributor
2) A very attractive trade discount
3) A returns policy (Keep this in mind if you are searching for an on-demand company for your book since not all POD publishers offer a returnable option.)
4) And demand. As a self-published author, creating demand, or “buzz,” is up to your promotional efforts, but make sure the POD publisher you choose provides the necessary means to fulfill the other criteria.
Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com
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